AIBU for pronouncing the name Brooke as BrOOKe rather than Bruck

[MoserRothOrangeandAlmond]

I’m a Geordie and pronounce words such as Book, Look and Cook with an oo sound rather than the uck sound.
A family who are from about an hour a way said that her daughter is sick of everyone pronouncing her name incorrectly.

I explained that it’s an accent thing as we pronounce those words with an oo sound rather that uck so it wouldn’t occur to most people to pronounce it that way and they wouldn’t deliberately mispronounce her name!

Just as if I go another part of the country or different country they pronounce my name differently depending on their accent.

AIBU?

Me. They sound the same.

As an Irish person I was so confused reading this thread until someone posted the video on how they would pronounce truck which is quite different to how I would. To me truck and Brooke are pronounced pretty much the same. The video of someone pronouncing Brooke Shields rhymed with truck to me which added to my confusion.

No, their name is Brooke. It sounds like Bruck in their accent but that doesn't mean their name isn't Brooke

No, the person is not telling me their name is Bruck.

They are saying that they pronounce Brooke as Bruck. (I mean, I'm not from the NE, so I wouldn't say it differently, but it wouldn't bother me if someone pronounces my name using their accent. That's how accents work.)

(Again, what about the Will-yum / Will-ee-m example. Would you change how you say the name William?)

I would say “will-yum” but if he turned to me and said it’s actually “willy-am” then of course I’d change how I said it.
I said before that I know someone called Pamela and at first I called her “pamla” because that how I’d say it, but she told me it was “pa-mella” so now I call her that. Why would I continue calling her pamla?

@sandyhappypeopleit is mimicking though, I know their accent well and they pronounced my husbands name with an eeeee rather than a short sharp ee. They pronounce book=buck cook=cuck.
So why on earth would I mimic their accent when they spell their daughters name
Brooke?
I love the way my Scottish relatives pronounced my name with a rolling R and also add an AY sound! Sounds completely different in Geordie! But they would sound bizzarre trying to say my name in a Geordie accent.

What happens if you put "truck pronounce" and "brook pronounce" into Google and listen to the 'British Pronunciation"?

Can you hear a difference?

They aren't different in some accents though

I haven’t read the whole thread yet. Has anybody managed to post a voice note of how Brook sounds like Buck? I really want to hear it. I am from London and would say it with an oo.

Yes, page 11, 6 posts down

I had neighbours from Yorkshire. I thought their daughter was called Ellen until I got a letter meant for her. It was actually Helen.
Should I have called her 'elen as they did? No because it would have sounded like I was mocking their accent.

I think southerners and northerners are hearing the work “Bruck” differently! What the OP is saying is that she pronounces Brooke with an extended “o” sound, as in “lose” rather a short one, as in “put”.

Brook doesn't rhyme with buck, as you think of buck.

Buck rhymes with how you think of book.

@breakfastdinnerandtea would!

Well, yes.

But on Google pronunciation they are.

Oh christ let me take that back now then to avoid an onslaught of comments.

I can imagine Brooke and truck maybe rhyming in a Scottish accent if that helps anyone.

If I saw her name Helen written down then I’d assume it was Helen, but if she told me it was pronounced Ellen then why wouldn’t I call her Ellen?

Go to page 11, 6 comments down and listen to the link

But if someone introduced themselves as (sorry I don’t know how to write it but imagine!) a Liverpool accent “hiya I’m brewk” you wouldn’t then repeat it back in a Liverpool brewk accent, you would just say hi Brooke, however you pronounce it

it’s different to someone saying Dan yell and Danny yell because that’s a wrong pronunciation not accent

if that makes sense

If someone turned to me and insisted that I used their regional accent to pronounce a name, I would think they were barking mad.

@breakfastdinnerandtea Because her name wasn't Ellen which is a completely different name. It was Helen but in their accent they dropped the H.

Because it isn't in your accent.

Because people with regional accents aren't thick and they know that people pronounce things differently.

Helen would be like Ellen in my accent but it sounds like Helen, it's subtly different to how a southerner pronounces the name Ellen. So if I heard a southerner say Ellen I would think they meant Ellen and not Helen which is a different name.

I get what you mean OP. I'm northern but once dated a guy from Bristol. He had a family member called Larry but everyone called him 'Lar'. It sounded great in their Bristol accent with the way they pronounce the letter r but in my Yorkshire accent it was more like Laaah. That sounded wrong but if I tried to say it in their accent it felt to me like I was taking the piss.

I just called him mate. 😂

Thank you to everyone who posted videos and voice notes. This is one of my favourite threads.